Thomas Merton Collection

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
Park-Jaechan-Anselmo-2013 "Thomas Merton's Encounter with Buddhism and Beyond: His Interreligious Dialogue, Inter-monastic Exchanges and Their Legacy." (Park, Jaechan Anselmo: 2018) Item 1995
Parker-Sara-2002 "Thomas Merton: A Case Study Using Autobiography." (Parker, Sara: 2002) Item 2002
Pascarella-Michael-Jr-2016 "The Relevance of Thomas Merton in American Society Today: A Look at the Life and Spirituality of the Late Spiritual Master and Trappist Monk Who Caught the Attention of Pope Francis." (Pascarella, Michael, Jr.: 2016) Item 2016
Pathrapankal-Mathew-1983 "Prayer, Contemplation and Contemplative Life According to Thomas Merton." (Pathrapankal, Mathew: 1983) Item 1983
Pearson-Paul-M-1985 "Search for the Promised Land: The Metaphor of Journey in the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton." (Pearson, Paul M.: 1991) Item 1997
Pease-Marilyn-T-1957 "Thomas Merton: A Literary Figure of Merit and Promise." (Pease, Marilyn T.: 1957) Item 1957
Pins-Herbert-J-1972 "Thomas Merton Valued Zen Discipline for Achievement of Transcendental Self." (Pins, Herbert J.: 1972) Item 1972
Potępa-Grażyna-2008 "Cnoty Teologalne w Pismach Thomasa Mertona." (Potępa, Grażyna: 2008) Item 2008
Raab-Joseph-Quinn-2000 "Openness and Fidelity: Thomas Merton's Dialogue with D.T. Suzuki, and Self-Transcendence." (Raab, Joseph Quinn: 2000) Item 2000 View
Reese-Daniel-Bryan-1995 "The Feast of Wisdom: Thomas Merton's Vision and Practice of a Sapiential Education." (Reese, Daniel Bryan: 1995) Item 1995
Robinson-James-2020 "Merton and Ruether: Toward A Contemplative-Prophetic Ecotheological Anthropology." (Robinson, James: 2020) Item 1982
Ronzani-Clare-1980 "Toward an Integrated Spirituality: The Contemplative-Prophetic Dimension in Thomas Merton's Spirituality." (Ronzani, Clare: 1980) Item 1980
Saltman-Benjamin-1968 "The Descent to God: Religious Language in Several Contemporary American Poets." (Saltman, Benjamin: 1968) Item 1968
Schell-Karl-Heinz-1984 "Grundung, Theorie und Lebenspraxis Amerikanischer Kloster Benediktinischer Tradition." (Schell, Karl-Heinz: 1984) Item 1984
Schuyler-William-Kearns-1970 "Transfiguration in the Desert: Thomas Merton's Search for the Love of God in Modern Man." (Schuyler, William Kearns: 1970) Item 1970
Schweigl-Paul-2019 "Catholic Intellectual Hospitality: An Application to Catholic Higher Education." (Schweigl, Paul: 2019) Item 2019
Scruggs-Ryan-2009 "Thomas Merton and the Bible: Reading that Transforms." (Scruggs, Ryan: 2005) Item 2009
Seitz-Sheila-1982 "Thomas Merton's Spirituality of Consent." (Seitz, Sheila: 1982) Item 1982
Skeffington-Thomas-1950 "Poems Set To Original Music [includes setting for Merton's poem: 'For My Brother']." (Skeffington, Thomas: 1950) Item 1950
Smith-Kevin-2016 "The Art of Integration? Psychology and Religion in the Work of Thomas Merton." (Smith, Kevin: 2016) Item 2016
Spolverato-Antonio-1986 "Thomas Merton: Dalla Filosofia Alla Contemplazione." (Spolverato, Antonio: 1986) Item 1986
St-Onge-Timothy-S-2010 "Cosmosophia: The Dwelling of the Divine in the Contemporary World." (St. Onge, Timothy S.: 2010) Item 2010
Staggs-John-H-1995 "Thomas Merton's Understanding of the Cross and its Positive Impact upon the Spiritual Well-being of Adult Lay People." (Staggs, John H.: 1995) Item 1995
Steffen-Donna-1981 "Nonviolence in the Thought of Thomas Merton." (Steffen, Donna: 1981) Item 1981
Stull-Bradford-Thomas-1992 "Religious Dialectics of Pain and Imagination: Postmodern and Liberation Rhetorics." (Stull, Bradford Thomas: 1992) Item 1992
Świerszcz-Katarzyna-1998 "Asceza Na drodze Do świętości w Nauce Tomasza Mertona." (Świerszcz, Katarzyna: 1998) Item 1998
Teahan-John-Francis-1976 "The Mysticism of Thomas Merton: Contemplation as a Way of Life." (Teahan, John Francis: 1976) Item 1976
Tredget-Dermot-Alan-2020 "In What Ways Can the Concept of Holy or Sacred Leisure Inform a Renewed Theological Understanding of Work and Leisure in the Twenty-first Century?" (Tredget, Dermot Alan: 2020) Item 2020 View
Ulm-Christopher-2012 "The Influence of Thomas Merton on the Emerging Church." (Ulm, Christopher: 2012) Item 2012
Urdanivia-Bertarelli-Eduardo-1983 "La Poesia de Ernesto Cardenal: Fe Cristiana y Compromiso Politico." (Urdanivia, Bertarelli Eduardo: 1983) Item 1983
van-Harmelen-Wim-1976 "De Weg van de Christen in de Hedendaagse Samenleving Volgens Thomas Merton—The Road of the Christian in Present Society According to Thomas Merton." (van Harmelen, Wim: 1976) Item 1976
Veliyathil-Paul-1985 "Thomas Merton's View of Contemplation and Action in the Light of the Karma-Yoga Ideal of The Bhagavad-Gita." (Veliyathil, Paul: 1985) Item 1985
Vine-Naomi-1988 "The Total Dark Sublime: An Interpretive Analysis of the Late Black Paintings of Ad Reinhardt, 1960-67." (Vine, Naomi: 1988) Item 1988
Voigt-Robert-J-1971 "Thomas Merton: A Different Drummer." (Voigt, Robert J.: 1971) Item 1971
Wagner-Carol-1980 "Teresa of Avila and Thomas Merton on Prayer: Journey to Self and God." (Wagner, Carol: 1980) Item 1980
Wallis-Bryan-Verdin-2015 "The Greatest Light is the Greatest Shade: Wendell Berry and the Darkness of Coexistence." (Wallis, Bryan Verdin: 2015) Item 2015
Wąsowicz-Sylwia-1997 "Sens Samotności Według Thomasa Mertona." (Wąsowicz, Sylwia: 1997) Item 1997
Welker-Joe-2023 "Blind Visions: Psychedelics, Thomas Merton, and Reformed Mysticism." (Welker, Joe: 2023) Item 2023
Weresch-Joshua-2004 "Voices in the Wilderness: Monasticism in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Thomas Merton." (Weresch, Joshua: 2004) Item 2004
Williams-Melanie-Boney-1998 "John Jacob Niles's Settings of the Early Poetry of Thomas Merton in The Niles-Merton Songs, opp. 171 and 172." (Williams, Melanie Boney: 1998) Item 1998
Won-Young-Bae-(Deacon-Augustine-Y-Won)-2019 "How the Silence and Solitude can be Reintroduced as the Empowering Tools for Christian Conversion in Today’s World: Following the Example of Thomas Merton’s Life and Prayer." (Won, Young Bae (Deacon Augustine Y. Won): 2019) Item 2019
Xu-Xiaoyan-2018 "Returning to Sacramental Ontology: A Study of Thomas Merton’s Monastic Theology." (Xu, Xiaoyan: 2018) Item 2018
Zelazek-Henry-A-1951 "Thomas Merton." (Zelazek, Henry A.: 1951) Item 1951
Žičkytė-Augustė-2017 "Gyvenimo Tikint Laikysenos Thomo Mertono Kūryboje." (Žičkytė, Augustė: 2014) Item 2017
#2 Published material. Auschwitz: a family camp [Spanish]. (Review of «Auschwitz» by: Naumann, Bernd.) [2392] Item 1967-03
#1 Manuscript. Auschwitz: a family camp. (Review of «Auschwitz» by: Naumann, Bernd.) [1734] Item 1967-08
E1 Manuscript Review of Book (Review of «Awakening of a new consciousness in Zen, The» by: Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, 1870-1966.) Subseries 1967
0300-0399 Drawings by Thomas Merton: #0300 through #0399 Series 1915-1968
l Laughlin – drawings by Merton given to James Laughlin (some at Harvard University) Series 1915-1968
Ruether_excerpt Rosemary Radford Ruether interviewed by Paul Wilkes, an unused outtake from interviews for Merton, a Film Biography Item circa 1983
OMEKA-36982 The Rt. Revd. Rowan Williams discusses the continued importance of Thomas Merton's writings at the 14 General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS), June 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky. Item 2015
OfTM Video Recordings of Merton Series 1948-2024
iii ITMS Conference Materials Record subgroup 1989-2023
iv ITMS Publications and Publications from Merton Groups Abroad Record subgroup 1987-2024
ii William Habich Collection of Mertonia Record subgroup 1944-1968
iv The Merton Project Files - Material from the PBS Documentary Record subgroup 1982-1984
viii Shannon Correspondence Files Record subgroup 1980-1989
xviii Patrick Samway Papers Record subgroup 1948-2015
xx John Edgar Raub Papers (Fr. Jacob Raub, O.C.S.O.) Record subgroup 1992-2019
xxii Harold Talbott and Bonnie Thurston Correspondence and Related Papers Record subgroup 1989 – 2005 approximately
1945-2000 1945-2000: by Breit, Burton and Pearson Series 2002 View
2000-2015 2000-2015: by Patricia A. Burton Series 2015 June View
xx Bibliographies by Subject Record subgroup 2010-2024
2023-Program 2023 ITMS Conference Program Item 2023 View
xl ITMS Publication Indexes Record subgroup 2010
lx Quotations: Works Cited in Journals and Published Letters (Virtual Collection) Record subgroup 1938-1968
Ltrs: RtoJ p. 142-43 Bhagavad Gita. Item 1938-08-11
SSM-03 Thumbnail of Seven Storey Mountain digital exhibit [03] Item 2023
lxxx Visitors of Merton Record subgroup 2014-2016
01 Forms for Researchers Series 1969-2024
#1 Published material. Absurdity in sacred decoration. [2331] Item 1961-09-21
#1 Published material. Action and contemplation in St. Bernard. [2332] Item 1953-01
#2 Published material. Action and contemplation in St. Bernard. [2453] Item 1954 (approximate)
#1 Manuscript. Adaptation of the monastic life: some personal observations. (1st Draft). [0001] Item undated
005 Address on prayer by Pope Paul VI at his regular weekly general audience - November, 10, 1965 (translated by Thomas Merton). Series See Subseries and Item description.
D2 Mimeographed Essay Subseries 2001
#1 Manuscript. Address to the Special General Chapter, Sisters of Loretto, August 1967. [1720] Item 1967-08
D5 Bound Essay Subseries no publication year
#1 Published material. Adoration of the shepherds (Merton drawing used for cover art). [2335] Item 1982-11
009 Advent. Series See Subseries and Item description.
010 Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167. Series See Subseries and Item description.
011 Aestheticism: the "Highbrow" problem. Fragment on Eric Gill. Series See Subseries and Item description.
#1 Manuscript. Aestheticism: the "Highbrow" problem. Fragment on Eric Gill. [0004] Item
012 Aids to mental prayer. Series See Subseries and Item description.
D2n Mimeographed Notes Subseries unpublished
D1 Published Essay Subseries 1988
#1 Notes. Angel and the machine, The. [1213] Item 1965 (approximate)
E1m Manuscript Miscellany Subseries unpublished
#1 Manuscript. Angel, The. [0007] Item
021 Anglican Devotion, by Charles James Stranks. Series See Subseries and Item description.
022 Anglicanisme. Review of English Spirituality, by Martin Thorton. Series See Subseries and Item description.
E1n Manuscript Notes Subseries unpublished
#1 Notes. Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109. [0014] Item
D2 Mimeographed Essay Subseries 1968
#2 Published material. Answers for Hernan Lavin Cerda. [2350] Item 1967-09-15
D5 Bound Essay Subseries no publication year
E1 Manuscript Essay Subseries 1989
#2 Manuscript. Answers for Hernan Lavin Cerda. (1st Draft). [0017] Item 1967-08 (approximate)
D1 Published Essay Subseries 1965
#2 Published material. Answers on art and freedom. [2351] Item 1965